18.02.2010 (Thursday)

Solitons in Holographic Superfluids

Regular Seminar Sean Nowling (Helsinki)

at:
14:00 QMW
room 602
abstract:

The gauge/gravity duality provides a new set of tools for exploring the physics near 2+1 dimensional quantum critical points. In many highly quantum states of matter, soliton configurations yield clues about the physics of both large and small length scales. I will review a holographic model for a relativistic superfluid. I will then discuss dark soliton and vortex solutions supported by this superfluid.